Word: chorused
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco, Baritone Paul Robeson, 59, the best voice in the U.S. Communist chorus, was about to give his first full-scale U.S. auditorium concert in five years when the Chronicle quoted him as lamenting: "I am sorry now that I quit the concert stage because of politics. I see now that I should have gone on with my work." To some, these words sounded like a contrite solo, but Robeson himself soon drowned them out with the bizarre protest that the capitalist press was maligning him as a nonCommunist. Rumbled Robeson: "These nice people are trying to make...
...bumper-to-bumper downtown traffic dwindled away to eerie emptiness. Then, from steeple after steeple, bells clanged out the Roman Catholic Church's defiance of the dictator and the signal for the strike to start. Auto horns, usually muted under threat of a $100 fine, hooted in derisive chorus across the city...
NICOLAI GEDDA, 31. born in Stockholm of Russian-Swedish parents (his father was a baritone in the Don Cossack Chorus), did well in his Met debut as Faust, outdid himself as Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Anatol in Vanessa. Tall for a tenor-his pressagent, measuring with a basketball coach's rubber ruler, claims 6 ft. 3 in. -Gedda offers a clear, sweet voice that may lack warmth ("Champagne rather than Chianti," says one critic), but has strength and purity. His acting is intelligent, his pronunciation unusually correct for the opera stage; he is a linguist, speaks seven languages...
...crawlin' all over me") and brayed his inimitable full-octave singing quaver. Digging into Broadway's attic of old goodies, Omnibus borrowed Lend an Ear's funny, picture-hatted Gladiola ("Skiddy, give me some hooch") Girl and a rollicking Prohibition Era chorus line to vamp the Long Island playboys...
...MATTHEW PASSION (Bach): Soloists and Scherchen conducting Vienna Academy Chorus and State Opera Orchestra...